Review: King Size Drag

With the proliferation of venues dedicated to or giving up space for drag queens (UK is on its 4th season of Rupaul’s UK Drag Race), it is refreshing to see the emergence of the drag king scene in Scotland. On Friday night, Shut Up & King with support from Creative Scotland presented its annual showcase Scotland’s New Kings On The Block at Drygate (near Dennistoun). Over a period of 3 hours, 12 kings ruled the stage and served us pure, unadulterated, concentrated musky masculinity. From toxic tories and serial lovers through to self-absorbed rockers and dreamers. It was a beautiful sordid mess - a reflection of a world grinning back at you; not a tenth as pretty as it likes to think it is.

Burnham DramaturgyOctober 2, 2022performance, Drag, ArtComment

Review: (le) Pain

(Le) Pain is a genre-hopping performative tour of life and bread. I had no idea the etymology of ‘companion’ had latin roots (com: ‘together with’; panis: ‘bread’)…sprinkle with a little French et viola: ‘to break bread with one another’. Lovely. As is this whole show.

TheatreBurnham DramaturgyAugust 31, 2022theatre, performance, Jean-Daniel Brousse, (Le) Pain, EdFringeComment

Review: Sensing Blanche

Last Thursday, for the first time since 2019, I stepped once more into a theatre space: James Arnott Theatre at the University of Glasgow. The School of Culture & Creative Arts is a department I know well from my time studying an MLitt there.

On this occasion, I was there to see Nicole Kovacs’ performative meditation on the life of Blanche DuBois - the doomed character from Tennesee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire.

TheatreBurnham DramaturgyOctober 4, 2021performance, dramaturgy, drama

The Journey Interviews - 2

The new audio play A Journey Around My Room will be available very soon. In the second of our interviews, interviewee David Sillars turns interviewer to speak with Lorenzo Novani.

Lorenzo is an actor, dramatist and playwright. He has written, staged and performed two plays Cracked Tiles and Loving the Enemy as well as having co-written the filmed-theatre event A Journey Around My Tenement. Lorenzo plays the part of Joanetti.

TheatreBurnham DramaturgySeptember 26, 2021audio, drama, dramaturgy, theatre, radio, performanceComment

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